1/ In putting together rough ideas for a DeOldify talk tonight, I was reminded of a key insight/approach that has really paid off over the years. And that is: People do research. And people- even the smartest people- are prone to less than optimal problem solving behaviors.
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4/ Since then, time and time again, it has paid off for me, big time, to simply remember to look where others aren't looking, and to prioritize actual observation over trying uncritically assume that smarter people have already covered the territory and are right.
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5/ I just find this incredibly interesting- the subject of how exactly progress in science, tech and culture -actually- happens. I think it has a lot more to do with being ok with "oopsies", asking the right questions, and exploration rather than trying to be right and clever.
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I took a class on NN in 2004. They were interesting but kind of useless as computers weren't powerful enough yet.
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Yeah I get that- it was even before CUDA. But there was already reason to believe at that point that they were powerful and there were already practical demonstrations of this.
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